Building your own DIY agent for incident resolution?

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Building your own DIY agent for incident resolution?

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Understand what to look out for.

Building your own DIY agent for incident resolution?

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Understand what to look out for.

Hyground vs

Azure SRE Agent

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Hyground vs Azure SRE Agent: an agent you run, on any cloud

Microsoft operates Azure SRE Agent for you. It comes with built-in access to Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Resource Graph and AKS, and with a run mode that lets it act without asking. Hyground you install into your own Kubernetes cluster on any cloud, where it reads the stack from inside and changes nothing.

A fair starting point

If your estate is Azure, Azure SRE Agent is a capable service. Out of the box it queries Application Insights, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor metrics and Resource Graph, runs kubectl against AKS, and can read and modify any Azure resource through Resource Manager. Connectors take it further, to Kusto clusters, source repositories, collaboration tools and custom APIs, and it indexes incidents from PagerDuty and ServiceNow. Review mode is the default, so it asks before it changes Azure infrastructure; in Autonomous mode it executes immediately and reports afterwards. Hyground is narrower on Azure and broader everywhere else. It runs in your own cluster on any cloud, and it does not modify infrastructure at all.

Side by side

Hyground vs

Azure SRE Agent

at a glance

What matters

Hyground

Azure SRE Agent

Where it runs

Entirely in your own Kubernetes cluster, on any cloud, on-premises and air-gapped included.

A Microsoft-operated service inside Azure, running under a managed agent identity.

Cloud and stack neutrality

Any conformant Kubernetes on any cloud, plus AWS and Azure accounts, databases and ticketing.

Built for Azure. Its built-in reach is Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Resource Graph, Resource Manager and AKS.

LLM choice

Any provider through LiteLLM: a cloud model in your own tenant, a self-hosted model, or any OpenAI-compatible API.

Microsoft's models, under Microsoft's terms. Their documentation describes no customer choice.

Kubernetes reach

The full cluster API from inside every cluster, on any distribution and any cloud.

AKS diagnostics, including kubectl commands, through the agent's Azure permissions.

What the agent changes

Nothing in your infrastructure. Hyground diagnoses and recommends.

Reads and modifies Azure resources. Review mode asks first; Autonomous mode executes immediately and reports after.

Azure depth

Azure through the CLI, read-only, as one environment among several.

Native across every Azure resource type, with subagents, skills and incident platform integration.

Your documentation and runbooks

Confluence Cloud and on-premises, up to 100 Git repositories, Artifactory and uploaded files, embedded inside your cluster.

Knowledge you connect, plus web pages, file attachments and repositories, held in the service.

Pricing model

Priced on infrastructure size, not seats. Quote on request.

Metered inside your Azure bill. Check their current pricing page for rates.

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Why teams choose Hyground

Where Hyground differs

The agent runs in your cluster, not in Azure

Hyground installs by Helm into your own Kubernetes cluster, on any cloud or on-premises, and everything stays there: the agents, the knowledge base, the audit trail and the connection to your model. Azure SRE Agent is operated by Microsoft inside Azure and works through an agent identity Microsoft manages.

Any model, including one you host yourself

Hyground connects to any LLM provider through LiteLLM: a cloud model in your own tenant, a self-hosted model, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with automatic fallback across a model list. Azure SRE Agent runs on Microsoft's models under Microsoft's terms, with no customer choice documented.

No infrastructure mutation at all

Azure SRE Agent can read and modify any Azure resource. Review mode is the default and asks before an infrastructure change, but Autonomous mode executes immediately and reports afterwards, and approval buttons cover Azure infrastructure operations rather than every action. Hyground does not restart, scale or reconfigure anything: adapters verify read-only at startup, below the model.

Every cluster, on every cloud

Azure SRE Agent runs kubectl against AKS, so Kubernetes is not a gap for them inside Azure. What it does not do is span clouds. Hyground installs into each cluster you run, on AKS, EKS, GKE, OpenShift, K3s or bare metal, with routing to a named cluster and parallel fan-out across all of them.

Your runbooks and wikis, indexed inside the cluster

Hyground ingests Confluence, Cloud and on-premises, up to 100 Git repositories, Artifactory and uploaded files, and embeds them in a vector store that stays in your cluster. Azure SRE Agent takes knowledge you connect, including web pages, file attachments and repositories, and holds it in the service.

Not tied to one vendor's cloud or billing

Hyground is a Helm chart you install and can uninstall, licensed on the size of the infrastructure it covers, from a German vendor with no control plane. Azure SRE Agent is an Azure service: it lives in the portal, runs on Microsoft's models and meters into your Azure bill.

Decision

When each platform fits

Both act as a digital SRE. One is native to a single cloud and operated by its vendor; the other you install yourself and run anywhere. If your estate is entirely Azure, that nativeness is an advantage rather than a limit.

Choose Hyground when

You run more than one cloud, or Kubernetes outside Azure, or sites that are on-premises and air-gapped. The agent and the model both have to stay inside your own perimeter. Or what you want is an agent that changes nothing in your infrastructure at all.

Choose

Azure SRE Agent

when

Your estate is Azure. You want an agent that already understands every Azure resource type without connectors, and your governance and procurement would rather have a Microsoft-operated service that sits in the portal and lands on the Azure bill.